What is .homedepot?
Brand TLDs operate under Specification 13 of ICANN's registry agreement. It lets a trademark owner keep every second-level name for itself, so you won't find .homedepot names for sale at any registrar.
.homedepot entered the DNS root zone on June 4, 2015, 11 years ago. It came out of ICANN's New gTLD Program, the 2012 application round that grew the root from 22 generic TLDs to well over a thousand.
Home Depot Product Authority, LLC also runs one other TLD, including .thd.
On the technical side, .homedepot is served by 4 authoritative name servers, every one of them reachable over IPv6. It is also DNSSEC-signed: the root zone carries a DS record for .homedepot, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.homedepot).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.homedepot FAQ
What country is .homedepot?
None. .homedepot is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .homedepot domain extension?
Home Depot Product Authority, LLC operates .homedepot as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .homedepot created?
.homedepot was delegated to the DNS root zone on June 4, 2015.
Is .homedepot a valid domain?
Yes. .homedepot is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2015, so .homedepot addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .homedepot domain?
No. .homedepot is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for Home Depot Product Authority, LLC.
Is .homedepot DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .homedepot.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed August 11, 2023. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
